Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Ronald Hill

A deficit of only $8.4 billion in fact is not as much of a drag on GDP growth. It keeps things faster and also means that American exports continue to remain competitive in a market where the world is growing generally slower than we are.

Russell Baker

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

Charles Schumer

The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down.

Gordon Sinclair

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

John P. Kotter

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

Elon Musk

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

James Williams

Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Kevin Turner

We will pursue this individual, we will search him out and try to get at least some of our money. The rest will be borne by the taxpayer.

Dale Carnegie

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

e. e. cummings

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Alex Ferguson

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

Harold E. Varmus

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Amartya Sen

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Anneliese van der Pol

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anne Sexton

women are born twice.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Paul Bell

Dell is clearly a PC company, but increasingly as we go forward, we are more and more of an Internet company. The Internet is part of everything in the way we do business with our customers.

William Rehnquist

Commutation decisions have not traditionally been the business of the courts, ... As such, they are rarely, if ever, appropriate subjects for judicial review.

Kevin Steenberge

Coaches are going to come and go. That's the nature of the business.

David Bailey

Compaq is making incremental steps to improve its business line. But they really have several hurdles going forward.

John Challenger

Companies that simply let these workers go will probably find a significant decline in the level of customer service and may even find some customers taking their business elsewhere.

Vint Cerf

Companies that rely on the Internet for their business models should be contributing to guarantee that the Internet remains stable,

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Stan Gaines

You hear all types of things and you try to not listen to it. I was shocked when he told us this morning. I enjoyed playing for him. I don't know what standard he's being judged by, but I can say nothing but good things about him.

Pat Daugherty

I enjoyed scouting and wanted to keep scouting.

Brian Morris

I enjoyed playing quarterback. But the way I look at it now, with us running the Power-I, I'm in a very important position in the offense. We have a great tailback with E.J. Burgess. Hopefully I can help the team any way I can.

Larry Brown

I thought with this young team he was vital for us, ... I wouldn't have enjoyed watching him play handicapped as he is.

Lisa Kelly

We've been through a lot together. We always had fun. We were just a group of friends who enjoyed doing things together.

Wladimir Klitschko

I can fight 12 rounds, no problem, as you can see. I enjoyed the fight.

Warren Johnson

I have won a few of these things in a variety of ways, so I take events like this in stride. However, the true importance of this win is what it means to our young GM Performance Parts crew. This is their first win as a group and I really enjoyed seeing how excited they are about winning.

Gary Collins

I really enjoyed the night game. We had a nice crowd.

Bible Bible

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

Scott Bauman

Honestly, if you would have told me in November that we'd have a winning record after losing over half our scoring team from last year, I would have laughed. But these kids have come together and grown and learned, and I'm as proud of them as I could be.

Robert Blake

I didn't have much of a life, ... My kids were grown and gone. I was very, very single a loner.

Steve Scruggs

That was something we could absorb. From 2004 to 2005, we have grown exponentially. We can't keep up with that.

Sean Sullivan

We had grown out of it. We just wanted something new.

James Wolpert

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche.

Kim Edwards

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

Tim Ehresman

A big key is we have to finish. I think these guys have grown up a lot over 19 games.

Nicholas Haslam

I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Charles Howell

I don't know how to do it, never have, and don't plan on learning. I just don't understand it.

Dennis Long

I'm still learning them as much as they're learning me.

Sharon Van Etten

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

David Rosenthal

I think many clinicians, many physicians, are now listening and also learning about complementary therapies,

Michael Pettway

I feel comfortable, but it's still a learning experience. This summer I got a little experience, but it's still a learning experience.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Albert Einstein

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Derek Luke

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married

Chuck Palahniuk

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Anne Rice

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Andrew Sullivan

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

D. H. Lawrence

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

James Walsh

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Camila Alves

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

Celia Rivenbark

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

Sue Miller

Right now, we're stretched payday to payday, but we'll get it done.